While flying back today from lovely Harrisburg, PA (the whole town smells like chocolate!), flipping through The Atlantic, I came across two books that looked really interesting. First, there’s Eamon Duffy’s new work, “Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570.” Duffy apparently extracts great riches from the marginalia in the prayer books of pre-suppression England. In fact, he works with the actual copy of the prayer book that St. Thomas More used, and wrote in, while awaiting his death. I thought Duffy’s “Stripping of the Altars” was one of the best non-fiction books I’ve ever read, so I’m looking forward to “Marking the Hours.”
Next up is Charles Taylor’s “A Secular Age.” ‘Nuff said.
If any Vox Nova readers have already jumped into these books, I’d welcome impressions and reviews.
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